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YOUR NO. 1 COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER VOL. 34 NO. 4 JANUARY 21, 2020 TEL: 031 459 8300 email: [email protected] THE RISING SUN, MEREBANK, JANUARY 21, 2020 - www.risingsunchatsworth.co.za THE RISING SUN, MEREBANK, JANUARY 21, 2020 - www.risingsunchatsworth.co.za THE RISING SUN, MEREBANK, JANUARY 21, 2020 - www.risingsunchatsworth.co.za YOUR NO. 1 COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Distributed in: Austerville, Clairwood, Jacobs, Isipingo, Lotusville, Merebank Central, Merebank Ridge, Navy, Merewent, Wentworth, South Coast Road, Edwin Swales, Fynnland, Lotus Park, Orient Hills, Isipingo Hills, Isipingo Rails, Prospecton and CBD and Isipingo Beach 22 500 VOL. 34 NO. 4 JANUARY 21, 2020 TEL: 031 459 8300 email: [email protected] Ragavello Naidoo who is grateful to be alive after a horrific house robbery shows the entry point through which the robbers came Rising Sun journalist, Mpumelelo Nsibande, interviews residents Ragavello Naidoo and Ismail Moola. through. Pensioner strangled during home invasion After a month of deadly shootings bers during a house invasion, last was about to go to bed. “Three men an incident of this nature has hap - no action,” he said. on Dinapur Road in Merebank, 85- Saturday. stormed into the house and de - pened to him. Another neighbour, Community activist, Yusuf Vawda, said that year-old Ragavello Naidoo is Speaking to the Rising Sun, a dis - manded money from me. I told Ismail Moola (77), said he is house break-ins are still on the rise and crimi - thankful for his life after being pep - traught Naidoo said the incident oc - them that I didn’t have any money shocked and traumatised after hear - nals are now targeting senior citizens because per sprayed and throttled by rob - curred at around 8:30pm just as he and I tried to run away because I ing what happened to the pensioner they are soft targets. “There is a discussion of a was scared for my life,” he said. and does not feel safe anymore. He mass meeting with the residents to address the When Naidoo attempted to flee, believes that the criminals are local issues concerning the lower Ridge area. We are one of the men pepper sprayed and residents who knew that Naidoo re - making an appeal to the residents to take care strangled him. Fortunately, he man - sides alone. “If he hadn’t run away over pensioners who are becoming soft targets," aged to escape. he could have been dead. Crime in he said. One of the neighbours who heard the area has spiraled out of control Lower Ridge community activist, Deepchund the screams and commotion imme - and the police can’t handle it.” Harreeparsad, said that another house on the diately alerted the rest of the com - Moola, just like many other resi - same road was also broken into within a few munity on the WhatsApp dents, has lost faith in the govern - hours before the first house was robbed. He ad - crime-watch group. ment and the police. “I have even vised that the community be vigilant and to have Naidoo has lived in Merebank stopped attending community their neighbour's contact numbers so that they since 1961 and this is the first time meetings because it is all talk and can inform them when such things happen. “I always say that a united front is the strongest front and I urge the community to be a united front. There are lots of incidents like these tak - ing place in Merebank and I urge the residents to report crime because if they don’t, people will think all is well when it is not,” he said. A community meeting will be held on Thursday to discuss the crime issues in the community. The meeting will be held at the Christian Mis - sion Centre on Dinapur Road between 6pm and 6:30pm. Hareeparsad urged people to attend the meeting and show their support. At the time of going to print, the communications officer of Wentworth SAPS was not available for com - ment. 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